The alleged "help" that FAUX trumpets was, in fact, systematic cultural genocide. If FAUX wants to look at who has been most helped by the Federales, they might look into corporate farming, welfare logging, and the flow of tax money from Democratic controlled urban centers in the east to Republican controlled rural areas in the west. Historically, one of the biggest beneficiaries of the government purse was a little company called Weyerhaeuser, although it (George) purchased dirt cheap the government gift from the guy (Jim Hill) that took over the lands (we´re talkin´ 22% of the state of Washington, in part) after those that received them (the Northern Pacific RR) went bankrupt and plunged the country into its deepest depression up till that point.